April 29, 2013
Africa: Ethiopian Airlines Resumes Boeing 787 Dreamliner Service
After more than three months of suspension, Ethiopian Airlines resumed its Boeing 787 Dreamliner service over the weekend with a successful flight from Addis Ababa to Nairobi. Read more »
April 24, 2013
Africa: United States Disengaging From Africa - Mo Ibrahim
Although Africa is moving forward, the United States is pulling back, says Mo Ibrahim, the billionaire entrepreneur and father of Africa's mobile phone revolution. Read more »
April 19, 2013
Africa: Invest in Water Storage to Secure the Future
Water and energy are fundamental to poverty reduction and economic transformation on the African continent. When experts, policymakers and high-level representatives met this week… Read more »
April 08, 2013
Africa: Plutocrats Versus the People - Another World Is Possible
Every February, roughly 3,000 of the world's economic and political elite gather for the World Economic Forum (WEF) in the snowy ski town of Davos amidst the beautiful backdrop of… Read more »
April 05, 2013
West Africa: U.S. and West African Countries Work Towards Trade Deal
The United States is working with West African countries to reach a trade and investment agreement that supports efforts at economic growth and integration as American companies… Read more »
April 04, 2013
South Africa: Zimbabwe Targets South African Investors
The Zimbabwean government has increased efforts to unlock the country's investment potential and attract foreign direct investment (FDI) by targeting South African investors at a… Read more »
March 17, 2013
Africa: Will Africa's Candidate Win Top World Trade Post?
It's decision time for the 159 member countries in the World Trade Organisation (WTO), which regulates global rules for trade and tariffs. The selection process for the next WTO… Read more »
Africa: Transforming the U.S.-Africa Commercial Relationship
This 113th session of the U.S. Congress has an opportunity to transform U.S. trade and investment relations with Africa. Read more »
March 08, 2013
Africa: Pension Funds Key Drivers of Growth
The rapid increase in the number and size of African pension funds arguably matters more than any other single trend in the continent's economic development. Read more »
Tanzania: Correction Submitted by BG Tanzania
AllAfrica received the following statement from BG Tanzania regarding an East African Business Week article that was carried on our site and was subsequently taken down by East… Read more »
March 05, 2013
Congo-Kinshasa: Probe Launched After Deadly Plane Crash
A plane belonging to Compagnie Africaine d'Aviation (CAA) from Lodja en route to Kasaï crashed and disintergrated on the banks of Lake Kivu in an uninhabited area, official… Read more »
February 21, 2013
Africa: U.S. Official Flags Poaching As Security Threat
The number of elephants alive today is the smallest number ever recorded. A new surge of slaughter is, according to wildlife experts, worse than the mass killings of the 1970s and… Read more »
February 20, 2013
Malawi: Striking Workers Threaten to Close Airport - Report
Striking civil servants in Malawi have threatened government with the closure of the country's main airport in the capital, Lilongwe, according to Agence France-Presse (AFP). Read more »
January 29, 2013
Burundi: Central Market in Bujumbura Destroyed By Fire
An unknown number of people died and hundreds of businesses were destroyed when the central market in the capital, Bujumbura, burned to the ground on Sunday, reports the Anglican… Read more »
Africa: Supporting Women in Agriculture for a 'Prosperous' Africa
The African Union (AU) is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, but instead of looking back, the current chair, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, seems intent on casting her vision… Read more »
Malawi: Banda to Auction Presidential Jet
Malawi's Capital FM has reported that the Malawian government is offering its 14-seat presidential jet, worth more than U.S.$13m five years ago, to the highest bidder. Read more »
January 27, 2013
Africa: Summit Needs to Promote African Renaissance 2.0
When former South African President Thabo Mbeki brought back the notion of an African Renaissance to African political circles in the late 1990s, the continent was at a different… Read more »
January 17, 2013
Somalia: U.S. Recognizes Somali Government
The United States has officially recognized Somalia's government in Mogadishu for the first time in 20 years, U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton said after meeting with Somali… Read more »
January 16, 2013
Africa: Will an African Be Chosen to Lead the World Trade Organization?
Notwithstanding the fact that the Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) has few real powers as executive head of a member-driven organization, it is one of the… Read more »
Africa: World Bank Assessment of Sub-Saharan Africa in 2012
An excerpt from the sub-Saharan Africa summary of the World Bank's report, Global Economic Prospects: Read more »
January 10, 2013
Africa: Improve Policies to Fight Hunger - World Bank
Rising global food costs and low African food production require African governments to work to open regional agricultural trade to help improve productivity, says Makhtar Diop,… Read more »
December 25, 2012
West Africa: Nigeria Attacks Pair Piracy, Kidnappings
The 23 December pirate attack on an Italian ship 40 nautical miles off the coast of Nigeria's Bayelsa state is part of a growing trend in Africa's Gulf of Guinea region. Four… Read more »
December 21, 2012
Uganda: Top Google Searches Reveal Tech Focus
Apple and Samsung gadgets have been the talk of the year 2012 and it wasn't a surprise when Google released their Year-End Zeitgeist and found the two company products amongst the… Read more »
South Africa: Free Ads and Semenya Top Google Searches
Free classified advertisement is what South Africans were interested in this year, if Google's Zeitgeist list is anything to go by - as OLX topped the most-searched category. South… Read more »
Senegal: President Sall Tops Country's Search Terms
Macky Sall won the presidency of Senegal in April 2012, after a tumulutous time in country, when Abdoulaye Wade official approval to run for a controversial third and last term was… Read more »